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amarantinesky posted:Ugh that makes it so much worse. I'm finding a lot of ok books recently but not anything that was holy poo poo amazing. It's not the end of the world I'm just vaguely disappointed. What kind of books do you like? I'm currently reading The Fig Eater, by Jody Shields. It's a murder mystery set in Vienna in 1910, and I'm really digging it.
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Globo-Hitler III posted:got an email from a guy who wanted 40,000 lbs of turkey thighs What do you do with 40,000 lbs of turkey thighs???
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I'm reading two books about ancient Carthage.
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reading the corner: a year in the life of an inner-city neighborhood
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Watching Brick. I think this would have seemed like a bit much to me even when I was in high school
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Torka posted:book judger alert I'm a total book judger. I have a ton of used books so I'd never hold one or two books by a bad author against someone, but if you have the collected works of Janet Evanovitch... Enfys posted:What do you do with 40,000 lbs of turkey thighs???
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pixelbaron posted:reading the corner: a year in the life of an inner-city neighborhood That's a very good book. Heartbreaking, but excellent. I need to read that and Homicide again.
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boom boom boom posted:Watching Brick. I think I fell asleep watching that movie it was so dull. If I want melodrama I want drama jfc
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amarantinesky posted:I'm a total book judger. I have a ton of used books so I'd never hold one or two books by a bad author against someone, but if you have the collected works of Janet Evanovitch... Exactly. Or if your bookshelf is just college textbooks and the complete works of Chuck Pahluniak, but you graduated years ago
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Crow Jane posted:That's a very good book. Heartbreaking, but excellent. I need to read that and Homicide again. yeah so far its good not too far into it. i got homocide too i assume that is also excellent
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Crow Jane posted:He's terrible. And all his narrators sound exactly the same, they're completely interchangeable I thought Pahluniuk was the greatest in high school, which is somewhat shameful. Now his style kinda grinds on my nerves. He's a one-trick pony. I don't judge people for having his books unless they only have Fight Club, though. Especially if it's like one of five books total 95% of my books are in storage and when people come over and see a measly small three-shelf unit of books I want to yell "NO SERIOUSLY I OWN WAY MORE, DON'T JUDGE ME. If you're gonna judge me, we gotta drive 1000 miles do my dad's house and you have to look through all my books first." They usually say something like "Wow, that's a lot of books!" when they see the small shelving unit and that definitely makes me like them less. NO SUCH loving THING I spent about four hours on my blog and it's alllllmost done but I don't care enough to finish it and I'm mad at myself about that. E: poo poo please tell me you guys were just misspelling "Pahluniuk" and not talking about some other author entirely
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amarantinesky posted:Woah did he buy for the Renaissance Faire or something? Yum I want to eat a giant turkey leg while watching human chess and jousting and falcons. my money is either turkey fetishist or bulk meat retailer i asked if he would settle for 50 lbs haven't gotten a response yet
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Mar 14, 2014 04:55
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how do book judgers handle it when someone's collection is all electronic
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pixelbaron posted:yeah so far its good not too far into it. i got homocide too i assume that is also excellent It is. I assume you've seen The Wire? The three kind of bleed into each other, no pun intended
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They make assumptions and miss out on knowing someone awesome, probably Or ask to see the electronic collection I guess. Maybe they trade Goodreads.com URLs.
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How do book judges react to a collection that's about half manga and Warhammer40k. I'm asking for a friend
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Crow Jane posted:What kind of books do you like? Hmm I rarely dislike books so I'm pretty flexible. Anything with a compelling main character (since I'm assuming fiction here) and preferably interesting psychology. I like some murder mysteries but they have to be well done. My big thing is when an author can't set the right tone or really evoke a mood. I don't think that's very helpful though! Last year I read a few Kate Atkinson books and was pleasantly surprised.
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Torka posted:how do book judgers handle it when someone's collection is all electronic I dunno about the rest of you, but i judge the poo poo out of people who don't read physical books im old
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almost none of my books are fiction i am one of those turds
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boom boom boom posted:How do book judges react to a collection that's about half manga and Warhammer40k. with murder
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Mar 14, 2014 04:58
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boom boom boom posted:How do book judges react to a collection that's about half manga and Warhammer40k. Depends what the other half is. I like to see a variety of interests, myself
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Avshalom posted:DON'T MIND IF I DO Oh Av you might try Pinterest, there are a lot of creative people on there, and even more people who consider themselves creative which is enough for them to check out your stuff You can't pin a vid but you can pin cool stuff that's in the vid, and write up keyword-stuffed descriptions, too
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amarantinesky posted:Hmm I rarely dislike books so I'm pretty flexible. Anything with a compelling main character (since I'm assuming fiction here) and preferably interesting psychology. I like some murder mysteries but they have to be well done. My big thing is when an author can't set the right tone or really evoke a mood. I don't think that's very helpful though! I always, always recommend this, but The Crimson Petal and the White is the best book I've read in years
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Mar 14, 2014 04:59
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I don't read much unscientific fiction
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I just read The Stranger by Camus and I enjoyed it.
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ladyboy pancake posted:I just read The Stranger by Camus and I enjoyed it. I was about to say that I don't read fiction often (at all, really). But you just reminded me that I do like Camus a lot. I also read Scott Sigler whenever he releases something because it's usually good. Other than that, I have a bad memory and would rather fill it with true stuff. It is a deep source of shame, though 
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i cannot read historical fiction, even porn, once i detect an inaccuracy it ruined my enjoyment of that lesbian-dressed-as-a-man-romance set in the civil war south i found on literotica when someone mentioned getting a medal. the confederacy did not grant medals
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recently finished The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles enjoyed it found the characters bizarre but somehow still really relatable that's my recent book story
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Fabulist posted:I thought Pahluniuk was the greatest in high school, which is somewhat shameful. Now his style kinda grinds on my nerves. He's a one-trick pony. I don't judge people for having his books unless they only have Fight Club, though. Especially if it's like one of five books total I was copying Crow Jane there's no way I know how to spell that crazy name! People who think thirty books are a lot make me sad. So many people never read. Also I was reading your blog and it's really good! I feel so makeup incompetent now though, haha. I apparently have a Sally Beauty Supply like five minutes away so I think I'm going to check out that China Glaze nail polish I hear about. Torka posted:how do book judgers handle it when someone's collection is all electronic Lol it's not like the first thing I do is demand to see someone's books. It's just an interesting thing to note. I read ebooks sometimes but mostly stuff that I wouldn't really want to buy. As much as I love real books I understand the convenience of an e-reader so I'm not very judgmental about it. Fabulist posted:They make assumptions and miss out on knowing someone awesome, probably I wrote several scathing reviews on goodreads last year and got some followers, that made me happy.
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amarantinesky posted:I'm a total book judger. I have a ton of used books so I'd never hold one or two books by a bad author against someone, but if you have the collected works of Janet Evanovitch... Way back in the early days of the internet when I was doing online dating (I think it was long ago enough that Yahoo personals were a thing), I put "tell me the last five books you've read". Best questions ever to weed out uninteresting people, so many guys would list five golf books or computer books. (this was also when I used to get slammed with responses 'cause I was a geeky redhead under the age of 35) Fabulist posted:95% of my books are in storage and when people come over and see a measly small three-shelf unit of books I want to yell "NO SERIOUSLY I OWN WAY MORE, DON'T JUDGE ME. If you're gonna judge me, we gotta drive 1000 miles do my dad's house and you have to look through all my books first." I have a poo poo load of books (basically an entire room) and I am so tired of owning so many things. I really don't reread stuff much, I think I hold onto books as a talisman, to define myself and prove to the work who I am. But I don't think I need to do that anymore. I really want to pare down to just one or two bookcases max and donate the rest. amarantinesky posted:Actually Thora I mixed you up with Tora! Tora! Tora! - you guys need more unique names dammit - so you haven't flirted with anyone yet. Woohoo! Get it me! Tempus Fugit posted:awwww yeahhhhh, how you doing Tora  Tempus Fugit posted:Oh. Thanks Tora, friendzoned on the first day. 
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Crow Jane posted:It is. I assume you've seen The Wire? The three kind of bleed into each other, no pun intended yes. i may or may not have season 3 of the wire playing in another tab right now
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just in case anyone was wondering, dried papaya and mango are the best my body craves them
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pixelbaron posted:yes. i may or may not have season 3 of the wire playing in another tab right now Seasons 3 and 4 are the best. Season 3 is probably the very best, may need to rewatch it soon myself
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boom boom boom posted:How do book judges react to a collection that's about half manga and Warhammer40k. I had quite a lot of manga in high school, I think it got destroyed though. Even if it's all you read it's a step up from literally never reading in my book. Crow Jane posted:I always, always recommend this, but The Crimson Petal and the White is the best book I've read in years I know you've mentioned it I just have to remember to write the title down. detectivemonkey posted:I was about to say that I don't read fiction often (at all, really). But you just reminded me that I do like Camus a lot. I also read Scott Sigler whenever he releases something because it's usually good. Other than that, I have a bad memory and would rather fill it with true stuff. It is a deep source of shame, though we can give recommendations! I read some mindless stuff too so I promise it won't just be Shakespeare.Globo-Hitler III posted:recently finished The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles I loved Murakami when I was in high school. Totally bizarre magical fantasy. Kakfa on the Shore was cool especially since I really like Kafka.
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Globo-Hitler III posted:recently finished The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles Read that and Kafka on the Shore and I just...don't feel Murakami. Maybe I feel alienated by the way he writes women. Currently, I am on One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, whose writing I enjoy, yet it's making me a bit exhausted by its whirlwind narrative.
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Globo-Hitler III posted:recently finished The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles I liked it too. Murakami is like reading a zen meditation, you just follow the characters and see where it goes and try not to figure out what might happen. Kafka on the Shore is even better, I thought. But 1Q84 is terrible, don't bother. I'm kind of a book judger, but maybe not as bad as I used to be. There can be a time and a place for most everything. I find myself rereading classics a lot, especially the jazz age/lost generation (Fitzgerald, Dos Passos and Papa Hem mostly) Crow Jane, if your cool bookstore has any cool copies of Dante's Divine Comedy, either english or italian, I'll pay you in wine - Edit - beaten to death on Kafka on the Shore
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My wife has so many books and it drives me nuts and she just recently found an author she likes and all the space I finally freed up in the house is being turned into scifi/fantasy books again.
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